Improvement in rain-water cut-offs



ATENT FFICE.;

GEORGE STRASZER, OF MANCHESTER, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAIN-WATER CUT-OFFS.

Spccilicaiion forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,101, dated April21, 1874: application filed October 1G, 1873.

To all ywhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORG-E Sfrnnsznn, of Manchester, in the countyofSt. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Rain-Tater Out-Oi'; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a cut-off for conducting rain-water from the eaves of a building inor out of a cistern, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure l is a front elevation; Fig. 2, a vertical section through thelinew x, Fig. I 5 and Fig. 3, a horizontal section through the line y y,Fig. 2, of my rain-water cut-oft'.

A represents a rectangular box of any suitable dimensions, provided withside iian ges a af, to be attached to the side of a house. In the upperend of this box is a pipe, B, extending above the box, and also for asuitable distance downward into the same. This pipe isintended toreceive the rain-water pipe. In the bottom or lower end ot' the box Aisa pipe, C, to lead down into the cistern. On the front side ofthe boxis formed a spout, D, as showin Above this spoilt the front ofthe box ismade rounded, and provided with a horizontal slot,

b, extending half around the box, with a short vertical slot, d, at eachend of the slot b.

Around the lower end of the inlet-pipe B is it may be turned so as toconduct water down y through the outlet-pipe C into the cistern. Ineither case it is locked by pressing down the handle, so that the stementers the vertical yslot d at one end of the slot b.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The box A, provided with a horizontal slot, b, in combination withpipe E and partition G, all arranged to operate as and for the purposeset forth.

2. The stem j' and handle H on the pipe E, in combination with thehorizontal slot b and vertical end slots cl cl in the box A,substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE STRASZER.

WVitnesses W. F. SERJEANT, ALnxANDER DRUEsDAUs.

